Pineville-based Cenla Hurricanes finding success on, off diamond

2:29 AM,
Jun. 27, 2014

Cenla Hurricanes coach Darren Bayonne (front, center) gets tackled at the bottom of a pile by his players. The Hurricanes, a 10-and-under USSSA travel baseball team, recently won the AAA state title and have been ranked as high as No. 2 nationally. The team will play in the USSSA World Series in Gulf Shores, Alabama, next week.

Written by

Bret H. McCormick
bmccormick@thetowntalk.com

Darren Bayonne and Jamie Stansell used to be in opposing dugouts. Now they're on the same team, and they have 11 "sons" who count on them.

Bayonne and Stansell coach the Cenla Hurricanes, a 10-and-under travel baseball team based in Pineville. The two men first were foes in the Pineville Dixie Baseball league, when their sons were 5 years old and they each coached separate teams.

For two years, Stansell said, his team and Bayonne's team traded blows before they came up with the idea of joining forces and starting a travel ball team with both of their sons on the team. ...